Post Axsen6ftOm8u9Ph5ii by ZDL@mstdn.social
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 (DIR) Post #Axsen6ftOm8u9Ph5ii by ZDL@mstdn.social
       2025-09-05T00:57:50Z
       
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       #TIL about #Quechua (perhaps more correctly #Runasimi).  I mean I knew about it beforehand—I'm not a complete ignoramus!—but there was a feature of the #language I was 100% unaware of before today: #evidentiality.Encoded in the very GRAMMAR of the language is "show your source".  Statements are direct knowledge/committment, indirect/inferred knowledge, or hearsay.  BAKED INTO THE GRAMMAR!Most anglophone political memes would be grammatically incorrect in Quechua/Runasimi!